I know this is a dated post, but gosh, I can totally feel the unfeeling responses from all the examples given! I really wished I had read all these before I signed another 2 years contract with them! Over the years, Starhub has proven without fail its ablity to "add more cost at its disposal" and "remove more value" to their paying customers especially when we are tied down by the contract and have to pay a high penalty if we had enough and decide to end the contract. One good example is when my family signed up with them donkey years ago, they were made to purchase their TV box and hence OWNED the tv box, but one fine day in the midst of the contract, Starhub decided they wanted to start charging for "rental of the TV box" and additional cost suddenly appeared on the bill. It is logical for one to pay "rental" for something that one has PURCHASED and OWNED, seriously?! Numerous calls made to their contact centre resulted in same answer given, this is the new policy, they said...
Second e.g.: I had moved out on my own and currently into my 3rd contract with Starhub. Everytime during the appointment for installations, the technicians are ALWAYS LATE, there are always some MISCOMMUNICATIONS and when a new TV box was given when we were forced to change from cable to fibre, the technicians did not give us the new cables that come with the new box, citing "it's the same as the old one". "SO what happen if there is any technical issues due to the old cables", I asked? "Then you can call us and bring down to Starhub shop to change" was his reply. Does Starhub care that they are wasiting their customer's time in such cases? I don't think so.
Third e.g.: Starhub decided to go green, nothing wrong with that, but they decided to force all their customers to receive electronic bills and if you want/need a paper bill, they charge $1 for each bill. Ridiculous decision that once again, prove that Starhub doesn't give a **bleep** about their customers! When called their contact centre, cso said only senior citizens above 60 years old get waiver for their paper bill. Firstly, it is ridiculous that you start charging us for paper bill. But since this arrangement is avaliable, I asked if we can get the paper bill fee waived since my parents qualified for this. To which, the cso said they only recognised the subscriber. So I asked, if that's the case, then can we resolve this by letting us change the subscriber to my parent. The unhelpful cso said can if we pay $20 + GST for EACH SERVICE we have, which means we have to pay $60+GST in order to have paper bill fee waived. If I had known about this, I DEFINITELY WOULD NOT HAVE RENEWED MY CONTRACT FOR ANOTHER 2 YEARS. And worst still, I was reading some of the comments here and realised that if I completed my contract and want to terminate, there is still a $30++ fee to terminate the fibre broadband even when there is no more contract! I don't think I will be the only person whi felt CHEATED in this scenerio!
Anyway, I just wasted more than an hour talking to a useless service manager from their General Enquiry Department who is mechanical and robotic in responses and is not even able to answer a simple question on my bill! He is also not trustworthy enough as a person as he went back his words immediately when I accepted his proposal to get another service manager to call me back. Now I DO NOT TRUST that he can provide any solution to my concerns due to his lack of empathy and knowledge. I hope Starhub is still taking their customers and business seriously and doing things with a heart!
